3.8.3

⚠️ 3.8.x will be the last gensim version to support Py2.7. Starting with 4.0.0, gensim will only support Py3.5 and above

3.8.3, 2020-05-03

This is primarily a bugfix release to bring back Py2.7 compatibility to gensim 3.8.

🔴 Bug fixes

• Bring back Py27 support (PR #2812, @mpenkov)
• Fix wrong version reported by setup.py (Issue #2796)
• Fix missing C extensions (Issues #2794 and #2802)

👍 Improvements

• Wheels for Python 3.8 (@menshikh-iv)
• Prepare for removal of deprecated lxml.etree.cElementTree (PR #2777, @tirkarthi)

📚 Tutorial and doc improvements

• Update test instructions in README (PR #2814, @piskvorky)

⚠️ Deprecations (will be removed in the next major release)

• Remove

  • gensim.models.FastText.load_fasttext_format: use load_facebook_vectors to load embeddings only (faster, less CPU/memory usage, does not support training continuation) and load_facebook_model to load full model (slower, more CPU/memory intensive, supports training continuation)
  • gensim.models.wrappers.fasttext (obsoleted by the new native gensim.models.fasttext implementation)
  • gensim.examples
  • gensim.nosy
  • gensim.scripts.word2vec_standalone
  • gensim.scripts.make_wiki_lemma
  • gensim.scripts.make_wiki_online
  • gensim.scripts.make_wiki_online_lemma
  • gensim.scripts.make_wiki_online_nodebug
  • gensim.scripts.make_wiki (all of these obsoleted by the new native gensim.scripts.segment_wiki implementation)
  • "deprecated" functions and attributes

• Move

  • gensim.scripts.make_wikicorpus ➡ gensim.scripts.make_wiki.py
  • gensim.summarization ➡ gensim.models.summarization
  • gensim.topic_coherence ➡ gensim.models._coherence
  • gensim.utils ➡ gensim.utils.utils (old imports will continue to work)
  • gensim.parsing.* ➡ gensim.utils.text_utils